It's Fall!

The weather has finally cooled off, and it's gorgeous here.  And the Arboretum has their pumpkin displays out, so we spent Tue morning at the Arboretum.

I was hoping to get a few good pictures, but he just had no interest in standing still.  Every single one of my pictures is him walking away or him pointing and talking about something.  Here he is in the middle of their main pumpkin display.  He just kept pointing and saying "ball".

They also have a petting zoo there.  He was a little unsure of the animals when he was inside the fence.

He preferred to watch them from the other side of the fence.

We had a huge hail storm this week.  It hailed for a good 15 minutes.  I went outside to take pictures a few minutes after it stopped, but given the fact that it was 90 degrees a good bit of the ice had melted.  But here are a few pictures.



Dr. Caden and Mr. Clean

Caden has a stethoscope toy.  He has learned to hold it up to his or our chest and make a "bum bum" heart beat sound.  I didn't get a great video, but here he is sort of doing it.

We went to Pottery Barn Kids yesterday for their story time.  He had absolutely no interest in sitting and listening to the lady read.  But he did find the toys they have out for testing.  He LOVED the vacuum.  He played with the vacuum for a good 30 minutes.  I had to pull him away literally kicking and screaming when it was time to leave.  Here's a picture I took of him on my cell phone.

Since Caden's art class has ended, we got him an easil.  Here he is drawing with chalk last week.

Here he is today playing with play-doh.

Animal noises

Over the past few weeks, Caden has gotten really good at doing animal noises.  He still isn't too cooporative when I pull out the video camera, but today he actually did a few of them for the camera.

Here are a couple of the sounds that he knows...a dog, a lion, and a monkey.  Usually, he'll move his arms like a monkey when he does his monkey noises, but today he was too busy pulling out pots and pans.

We finally bought a booster chair for Caden to either sit at the table or the bar to eat.  He played in the box for quite some time today, just climbing in and out over and over again.



Baby update

We had a sonogram today, and Caden's little "sister" is looking perfectly healthy!  It's too early for them to be completely sure, but the doctor and the sonogram tech both think it's a girl.  We have another sonogram scheduled for Sept 28, and we should know for sure then.  (S)he's 3 1/2" long and was very active throughout the entire sonogram.

Caden and I met some friends at a splash park near our house last week.  I forgot to take my camera, but I took this with my cell phone.  He had a lot of fun.



He's getting so big.  We really need to buy him a booster seat for the kitchen table b/c sometimes he refuses to eat in his highchair.  Here he is eating at the table last week.

Toys away

Our flip wasn't working for a while, but fortunately, we figured out how to fix it.

Here's a video of him the other night putting his toys away before bedtime.  Over the past few months, he's gotten so good at putting his toys away.  All I have to do it sing his "toys away" song from Kindermusik, and he goes into this trance to put away anything that I say...I love it :)!  The song has even worked getting him dressed in the morning; as some days he would rather run around without clothes on laughing with me chasing him then get dressed.  Warning: you may want to turn the volume down, since this is me singing :).

Hey Good Looking, What You Got Cooking...

Caden is OBSESSED with pots, pans, spatulas, wooden spoons, anything that he can pretend cook or stir with.  I've started putting him in the high chair next to the counter sometimes when I'm getting dinner ready, so he can see what I'm doing.  If he's on the ground and can't see, he's at my feet begging for me to pick him up, so he can see what I'm doing.

Here he is one morning last week with a bowl and spatula.

Another one of his favorite things to do is empty drawers in the kitchen.  He was very proud of himself for emptying this drawer last week.



One of my good friends had a little girl yesterday.  So Caden and I went to the hospital this morning to meet Gracie.  Gracie's older sister is only a few months older than Caden, so I was explaining that Madeline now has a little sister.  I asked Caden if he wants a little sister, too, and he emphatically shook his head yes :).

Caden was much more interested in Madeline's Daddy's ipad than he was in Gracie.

Our final art class of the summer was this morning.  Here's a picture of Caden "dotting".



15 months

I've been so tired lately; I haven't felt like taking many pictures or posting anything.  Caden turned 15 months a week ago.  He had his 15mo well visit last week, and he clocked in at 28.4 lbs. (90%) and 32" (75%).

I bought an umbrella for our patio table, which enabled us to push it out and make more room for toys in the shade.  We got a water table for Caden this weekend.  We also moved his sandbox into the shade. 

Here's a pic of the new set up.

Here's Caden enjoying his new water table.



Mimi and Tia gave Caden a robe.  He's so cute...looks like a little old man with the belt tied around his big belly :).

It has a hood, too.  But he wasn't real keen on the hood, so it didn't stay up for long.